Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night . |
| 2 | Although marketing is done centrally , the success of a franchise is also down to the efforts of the franchisee in drumming up business . |
| 3 | He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx . |
| 4 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
| 5 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 6 | From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers . |
| 7 | And he exults , like Richard III , in his abilities in deception , which have indeed supplanted his real self : It is difficult for a modern audience , which has lost that sense of reverence attaching to ‘ service ’ that animated Renaissance society , from the glorification of the vita activa down to the duties of bondsmen and tenants , to appreciate fully the shock that these self-revelations would have had . |
| 8 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 9 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 10 | When both worked , it was down to the skills of the two drivers and there seemed very little to distinguish them . |
| 11 | One such walk takes you from the village of Bosherston , down to the sands at Broad Haven and around to St Govan 's Head , where there 's a tiny chapel tucked into the cliff face which you get to down some steps . |
| 12 | A walk down to the hotels on the other side of the bay should supply some clues on alternative accommodation . |
| 13 | Finally , the beer is piped into barrels which go down to the cellars for storage before delivery . |
| 14 | ‘ Would never go down to the cellars like everyone else when the air-raid siren went . |
| 15 | We can therefore make repeated use of unc unc to shift the declaration VARy down to the leaves of P' . |
| 16 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 17 | They get tight down to the bones of things . |
| 18 | By necessity my beauty routine is pared down to the basics of cleansing , toning and moisturising . |
| 19 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 20 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 21 | As Francis Bacon , the patron saint of the scientific method , wrote four centuries ago , ‘ The Universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our understanding — rather the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the Universe as it is discovered . ’ |
| 22 | Three great stone pots contained geraniums which trailed down to the walls beneath them , softening the stern appearance of the house . |
| 23 | At first she thought it was like a watch-tower , because the roof sloped down to the tops of the two windows , making them the most important things . |
| 24 | The course is bisected by the border between England and Wales and though , technically , Woosnam was born in Shropshire , he is a Welshman down to the tips of the spikes on his golf shoes . |
| 25 | right down to the tips of your fingers . |
| 26 | The gold of summer faded off Gabriel 's skin , grew down to the tips of his hair , and on days when the wind blew , he shivered at the top of his ladder like a flag at a mast-head , his long shirt billowing full of cold air . |
| 27 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 28 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 29 | Since Stevenson 's now owned Sir George right down to the buttons on his shirt , she thought that most generous . |
| 30 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |